Usually means: Bonding between different types of surfaces.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adhesion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adhesion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adhesion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adhesion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adhesion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adhesion, adhesion: Wordnik
  7. adhesion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adhesion: Wiktionary
  9. adhesion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adhesion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adhesion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adhesion: Dictionary.com
  13. Adhesion (medicine), Adhesion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Adhesion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. adhesion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. adhesion: Rhymezone
  17. adhesion, adhesin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. adhesion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. adhesion: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. adhesion: Free Dictionary
  21. adhesion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adhesion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Adhesion (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. adhesion: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhesion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Adhesion (medicine), adhesion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhesion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Adhesion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  6. Adhesion: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Adhesion (medicine), adhesion: Medical dictionary
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Adhesion: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adhesion: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Adhesion: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Adhesion: Building pathology glossary
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. adhesion: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  9. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  12. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See adhesional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
noun:  Persistent attachment or loyalty.
noun:  An agreement to adhere.
noun:  (medicine) An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
noun:  (biochemistry) The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
noun:  The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.

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